I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee...Psalm 9:verses 1 and 2a

Monday, December 12, 2005

I should be in bed but here I sit typing away, and reading blogs and smiling and even chuckling to myself. All the things we have in common...finding the tree stand. I enjoyed the truthfullness about how hard it is to get a tree anchored to the wall of the living room and so on. I had to go up to the attic ...crouching room only...and see that the tree stand was way back under the eaves part of the roof. So down I came and got my Mum's old cane and went back up and 'hooked' the tree stand and pulled it over to me. I am still missing 2 strands of star lights we bought at Ikea last year. Who knows what I did with them?? Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but challenging with all the decorating and baking and cards to do and yet everything in life thats worth doing is worth the work and effort and then some. I hope I can please the Lord as the days roll by and I realize....no way, am I going to be able to do everything I thought I was. But ...after all Christmas is the Babe in the Manger...not at all about how many cookies I bake, right? Yes!

6 comments:

Hello Miss Maggie, I'll add my Amen! to Amy's. It's nice to have those things done, but the world keeps revolving whether or not we do..I think gratitude for the season and a happy heart is more important than cookies..*VBS* I don't think we (for ourselves) mind so much that cookies don't get baked, but it's the expectation from those we love. As if they are always "sure" we will and can do everything the same as we always did...and that's not always the case. It's good to support the people who bake cookies for a living in this season of home heating bills...*VBS* That's a blessing too..*S* Hugs, Finn

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I was saved when I was 32 years old. We had evangelistic meetings the week of Mother's Day. When asked by the evangelist if I died tonight would I be sure I would go to heaven. I answered...'I hope so'. He answered, 'young lady, heaven is a 'know so' place'. He asked me to sit up front the next day in church, and the message was 'Hell will be filled with 'good' people'. The first one third of the message I sat in the pew and reviewed to God and myself what a 'good' person I really was. Not! The Holy Spirit of God brought conviction to my heart so vividly, that I clearly remember not needing to hear any more of the sermon. God's word had reached ME! I was a sinner on my way to Hell. I couldn't wait to go forward and pray, accepting Christ as my Saviour. I believed on him that day and received Him personally by repentance and prayer, confessing my need of salvation. Hell will be filled with good people all right, BUT good only in their own eyes. God alone is sinless and 'good'.

"ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God". Romans 3:23 "For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is mad unto salvation. Romans 10: 9 & 10 Verse 13 says this, 'for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.' John 1:12 & 13 says, 'But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.'